Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 18, 2012

With resources like virtual assistants and crowd sourcing there is no reason to “go it alone” Determine your top 3 revenue producing activities and YOU focus on them; delegate the rest. Thanks to Kenny Jahng of Big Click Syndicate LLC. Do you track your revenue? Thanks to Monica Shah of Revenue Breakthrough.

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LLC Non-Compete Revenue Hiring 166

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Let’s take a few minutes to examine the kind of equity financing available to small or early stage businesses. Some can supply more when syndicating with other such groups. If you have a virtual company with your employees working from home locations, as many startups do, it should be the location of the founder.

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Equity Finance Liquidity Event Angel Groups 62

View from Seed

JUNE 16, 2015

Our investment size may differ slightly from one company to the next, but it tends to be driven entirely by situation-specific factors (needs of the company, syndicate composition, anticipated reserves, etc) … and not based on our belief. For ecommerce: >$500K revenue/month. For SaaS: At least $100K in MRR.

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Boston Syndicate Syndication eCommerce 120

View from Seed

JUNE 30, 2015

A few weeks ago, Manu Kumar wrote an excellent post detailing the current state of the seed financing landscape. The cliff notes behind the idea is that what used to be considered a series A is now actually a seed round because… Capital efficiency allows founders to get further with less. Read it – it’s excellent.

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Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication Dilution 120

View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

There are a number of factors that have contributed to the rise of pre-seed rounds, but the strongest have been the frothy late-stage financing market, coupled with both the scaling-up of some of the early winners in the institutional seed ecosystem and the scaling-down of some larger funds that retrenched after the financial crisis.

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Seed Stage Early Stage Cofounder Finance 120

YoungUpstarts

JULY 6, 2017

by Brad Mishlove, CEO and founder of Catapult Groups. Once you learn about all of your financing options, you could choose the one best suited to help your business grow. Angel investors generally offer favorable terms to the startups they work with since they believe in the potential of its founders.

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Syndicate Syndication Software Review Angel Investor 127

Agile VC

JANUARY 12, 2012

When a startup doesn’t match the stage where a particular investor focuses, founders may get a response along the lines of “This is interesting to us, but come back once you get from X phase to Y phase” That could be from seed stage to a larger Series A financing need, or to progress from pre-product to post-revenue.

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Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate Syndication 100

Rob Go

JANUARY 7, 2013

As a founder, it feels like a long time, but it’s really a blip on the radar in the scheme of things. Actually, growth equity firms I find are best at this, because they have very specific financial criteria that they look for, such as ranges for revenue, ebitda, growth, etc. Founders: Repeat Founders: 8.

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Portfolio Seed Stage Cofounder B2B 49

Hearpreneur

JUNE 12, 2019

Joel Gascoigne is the co-founder and CEO of Buffer, a social media management platform. By making his companies journey, experiments, problems and even finances public I have learnt many lessons. I do my best to learn and emulate his distinctive leadership style in my day to day role as Founder and CEO of Harmony Helper.

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Entrepreneur Cofounder Los Angeles Leadership 81

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The team has already secured nearly $2 Million in Series A financing from Mike Maples new firm FLOODGATE, and Austin Ventures. Q: Your co-founders have been working on some technology in their spare time. revenue) and innovation that large entertainment, media and retail clients will buy. Is there real value in that data?

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Curation Austin Cofounder Ruby 118

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

They had a couple experienced co-founders, including the now legendary Reed Hastings, but the problem was that they were stuck at about 300,000 customers. To be specific, AdWords is currently 16 years old, and last year alone it generated well over $50B in revenue. The title is not important; the work they do is.

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Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. Russell Rothstein, Founder and CEO, IT Central Station , a product review site, said, “We see VCs on our site very often. 3) Raise capital.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

Financing, that is.I Since the iControl system chronicles all meetings, I was able to find the automatic picture snapped from my first meeting with the founders, Reza Raji and Chris Stevens on April 22, 2004. One truth of start-up financing is that it generally takes twice as long and twice as much money to accomplish your milestones.

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San Jose Angel Investor Term Sheet Venture Capital 28

Berkonomics

APRIL 3, 2014

We’ve spoken of financing a young company through friends and family, known as “inside angels.” And even though angel groups syndicate their best deals within their respective associated networks, it is always best to apply to the angel groups nearest your physical location. Raising money'

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Equity Finance Liquidity Event Angel Groups 92

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors. BonitaSoft has offices in France, the U.S. and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution.

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France Marketing Social Media Startup 77

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Facebook Co-Founder’s Startup Asana Launches Publicly. Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. Include screenshots of your product , a video walk-through and one or two charts that display traction or revenue.

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Social Media Startup Angel Investor RSS 80

mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

Mobile commerce revenues may still pale in comparison to their ecommerce brothers, but we’re already seeing signs of mobile commerce’s potential. I’m the founder of Movylo Shop (www.movyloshop.com), a SaaS mobile commerce solution. Follow Sourcebits on Twitter for recent news and updates. My 2 cents. startupcto

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Mobile Web Social Media Software Review 90

mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

Originally founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin Slide.com was known as the largest third-party developer of Facebook applications until Google purchased it to “make Google services socially aware.”. Money and Finance Lists. On2 designed video codec technology which Google used to optimize its WebM video format. On2 Technologies.

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San Francisco Acquisition Social Media Mobile 104

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

“Trade in an asset at a price that strongly deviates from an asset’s intrinsic value” The arguments against that, “This time the startups have real revenues!” And what many people don’t realize is that most syndicates get what is known as “deal-by-deal” carry. ” ring hollow.

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IPO Venture Capital LP SEC 150